On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 02:50:46PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > When we `power on' with the ssh method, we actually run ssh reboot. > > On some systems (notably, FreeBSD) the kernel does not simply reboot > immediately even with the runes we provide here, ie for FreeBSD > reboot -nq > Eg, I have seen reboots with several messages like this: > Jan 25 14:17:59.100044 Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system thread > `bufspacedaemon-2' to stop... done
So it seems like reboot -nq doesn't behave as expected... > This can result in the ssh method failing spuriously, because the > `power on' appears to complete while the host is still up in the > previous environment. In one of my test runs I saw an ssh to the host > succeed, and print the uptime (of the existing environment), between > the reboot command being issued and the host actually rebooting. > > So, wait (up to just over a minute) until the host does not respond to > ping. (target_await_down runs ping -c 5.) > > CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> Thanks. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
